... try, but most don't make it.' 'She's not a
yall a,' said Son. 'Just a little light.' He
didn't want any discussion about shades of black
folk.' Don't fool yourself. You should have seen
her two months ago. What you see is tanning from
the sun. Yall as don't come to being black
natural-like. They have to choose it and most
don't choose it.' (155) Heedless of the warning
and desperately in love, Son wants to 'rescue'
Jadine from the white world and bring her back to
Eloe and the history it st...

Memoirs of a Geisha by Author Golden and The
Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison are two thought
provoking books with a unique style of writing.
Memoirs of a Geisha has a beautiful poetic grammar
which captures readers imagination and brings the
story to life. Morrison on the other hand uses
combined voices to give varied perspectives with
out resorting to authorial intrusion or preaching.
Memoirs Of A Geisha and the bluest eye both
contain graphic realism combined with a dramatic
flair, which is the ke...

Katie Shannon 1 Mrs. Campbell English III Honors
March 15, 2001 Communal Ties in the Bluest Eye In
America, white culture dictates its cultural
values to society and to the other cultures within
it. In The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison illustrates
the effect of racism on the development of a black
girl, Pecola. Racism that goes beyond whites
belittling blacks but the effect that the white
culture has on blacks and their appreciation of
their culture and each other. It is not only the
whites that stu...

The Pain of Wanting to be Beautiful " Starlight
star bright' make me beautiful tonight. So many
young girls gaze into the stars wishing that they
could be beautiful so they would be accepted at
school, as well as loved and acknowledged more.
Pecola Breedlove in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye
is no different than any other little girl. She
too wants to be beautiful. America has set the
standards that to be beautiful one must have '
blue eyes, blonde hair, and white skin' according
to Wilfred D. S...

... sprout, they will know that everything will be
alright. However, as readers already know that
"there were no marigolds in the fall of 1941" and
nothing turn out right for Pecola. The next
chapter is a deranged dialogue carried out between
Pecola and herself in which she discusses her new
blue eyes, questioning if they are "bluest eyes"
in the world. We also discover that Cholly has
raped his daughter more than once. Her madness,
then, appears to be a defense against the pain of
living her l...

Seefatherheisbigandstrong Has anyone ever
deliberately left you? Left you alone, feeling
deserted, isolated, and by yourself? Imagine you
were abandoned by those who were supposed to love
you from the day you were born until this present
day. How would that make you feel? In Toni
Morrison's first novel, The Bluest Eye, she
examines the causes, effects, and consequences of
abandonment through one character, Cholly
Breedlove. As well as the ways he eventually
destroys himself and also those around...

Toni Morrison: Rags to Riches In the mid twentieth
century, the Civil Rights Movement influenced
African-American writers to express their
opinions. Most African-American writers of the
time discussed racism in America and social
injustice. Some authors sought to teach how the
institution of slavery affected those who lived
through it and African-Americans who were living
at the time. One of these writers was the Toni
Morrison, the novelist, who intended to teach
people about all aspects of Afri...

Toni Morrison The issue of abandonment and the
will that it takes to survive the hardship of it
is a reoccurring theme in Toni Morrison's writing.
Tar Baby, Sula and Paradise all deal with the
issue of abandonment and how it relates to the
characters in her stories. "Through her fiction,
Toni Morrison intends to present problems, not
their answers" (Moon). Her stated aim is to show
'how to survive whole in a world where we are all
of us, in some measure, victims of something.'
(Morrison) Morriso...

Sula & The Bluest Eye (Term Paper) African
American folklore is arguably the basis for most
African American literature. In a country where as
late as the 1860's there were laws prohibiting the
teaching of slaves, it was necessary for the oral
tradition to carry the values the group considered
significant. Transition by the word of mouth took
the place of pamphlets, poems, and novels. Themes
such as the quest for freedom, the nature of evil,
and the powerful verses the powerless became the
theme...

Race and Beauty in a Media Contrived Society
Throughout Toni Morrison's novel The Bluest Eye,
she captures, with vivid insight, the plight of a
young African American girl and what she would be
subjected to in a media contrived society that
places its ideal of beauty on the e quintessential
blue-eyed, blonde woman. The idea of what is
beautiful has been stereotyped in the mass media
since the beginning and creates a mental and
emotional damage to self and soul. This oppression
to the soul create...

What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a
sore-And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over- like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it
explode? While Langston Hughes authors this poem,
A Dream Deferred, it can easily be interpreted as
Toni Morrison's description of Nel and her life of
sorrow and dissatisfaction. Sula and Nel, the
protagonists in Toni Morrison's Sula, are each the
only daughters...

Outline The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison THESIS: In
the novel The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison
incorporates various techniques in The Bluest Eye,
such as her use of metaphors, the ironic use of
names and the visual images that she uses. I.
Background information on Toni Morrison. Where she
was born. B. Where she attend college. Why she
changed her nameD. When she got married II. The
Bluest Eye. Summary of The Bluest Eye. What is a
theme? 1. The main theme of The Bluest Eye. C.
What is a Plot? 1. W...

The major characters in The Bluest Eye by Toni
Morrison were Pecola Breedlove, Cholly Breedlove,
Claudia MacTeer, and Frieda MacTeer. Pecola
Breedlove is an eleven-year-old black girl around
whom the story revolves. Her innermost desire is
to have the "bluest" eyes so that others will view
her as pretty in the end that desire is what
finishes her, she believes that God gives her blue
eyes causing her insanity. She doesn't have many
friends other than Claudia and Frieda. Throughout
the book we se...

Analysis of Literature May 4, 1999 When
considering the novels that I have read by African
American writers, I would say that the book that
displays the most importance to me would be The
Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison. Importance, in my
opinion, has displays certain qualities that a
novel must have. Some of which are that the novel
must characterize and reflect upon real people
dealing with real situations in real places. What
makes a novel so real would be the ability for a
reader to really feel ...

Critique of Recitatif Sometimes, the mere fact of
being from a different race can influence people's
way of thinking or attitude toward other people
with different color skin. That is the theme of
Toni Morrison's short story Recitatif. In the
story, two eight year old girls, Roberta and
Twyla, from different races (black and white) meet
in an orphanage called St. Bonny's. Eventually,
they get out of the orphanage and they chance upon
each other several times. They find out that they
have changed...

"Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great
puzzle," wrote Lewis Carroll in his famous novel
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, implying that
the self is a complex entity and that identity is
a mysterious conundrum difficult to unravel. The
puzzling theme of identity and self-discovery is
one prominent in literature around the world,
specifically in American literature. This theme
overrides in many of Toni Morrison's works,
including Sula. Although she does not declare
identity as one of the bas...

The major characters in The Bluest Eye by Toni
Morrison were Pecola Breedlove, Cholly Breedlove,
Claudia MacTeer, and Frieda MacTeer. Pecola
Breedlove is an eleven-year-old black girl around
whom the story revolves. Her innermost desire is
to have the "bluest' eyes so that others will view
her as pretty in the end that desire is what
finishes her, she believes that God gives her blue
eyes causing her insanity. She doesn't have many
friends other than Claudia and Frieda. Throughout
the book we se...

By Toni Morrison Beloved Beloved By Toni Morrison
Dear Toni, Your novel Beloved evokes a tremendous
amount of emotion from its readers. The various
stylistic techniques enable the reader to see
beyond the twisted story. Your use of stream of
conscientiousness, symbolism, and characterization
bring forth a well-written novel containing strong
emotion. While I was reading your novel, I found
myself very enthralled with the character Sethe.
She is such an iron-willed woman, and a daily
survivor of ...

Toni Morrison was Beloved BELOVED Toni Morrison
was born in Loraine, Ohio on February 18, 1931.
She has accomplished many things from then until
now. From writing several books to being a trustee
of the National Humanities Center, she finds the
time to remain grounded and stable. She has
written many books, one namely Beloved which
focuses on one woman? s trials and tribulations.
Beloved is about a woman named Sethe, now living
in the Reconstruction-era farming country of Ohio.
Proud and beautif...

Beloved – Toni Morrison Beloved – Toni
Morrison Essay, Research Paper The meaning of the
character of Beloved in Toni Morrison s Beloved
The character of Beloved in the novel Beloved, by
Toni Morrison, is symbolic of several important
ideas that are essential to a complete
understanding of the novel. In the context of the
story itself, Beloved is a specter that has
returned to haunt the woman that killed her when
she was child. On a deeper, subconscious level to
the characters within...